Rounded text box, anyone?
Google Chrome has been the go-to web browser for many people for years, partly due to its developers constantly drafting, scraping, and deploying new features with the hopes of improving usability and performance. One such feature has changed how Chrome looks and as such, Google is set to launch a significant redesign this year. We’re now getting more details on how this will look courtesy of a new flag that can be enabled on Chrome Canary for desktop right now.
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To be perfectly clear, we only see some visible changes right now, though there should be more changes to come. The most noticeable change is the bookmarking windowwhich we’ve pictured belowfeatures rounded buttons and text boxes compared to the older version (right).
The tab gets a blue tint with the backboard flag enabled (left), although it’s hard to tell apart from that, at least on the macOS version of Chrome Canary. You can try to do partial redesign yourself by enabling the following flags – chrome://flags/#chrome-refresh-2023,
As 9to5Google points out, developers have been teasing the Google Chrome redesign since last November with entries in the Chromium repository.
Last week, we were given a glimpse of some new-look accents that appear to be attached to the new design. In addition, Google is also working on other visual upgrades for Chrome on desktop, such as a new download counter for when you have multiple downloads running.
Hopefully, more people will be able to see what’s in store from the redesign as it makes its way through channels in the coming weeks and months. Most of the changes we’ve talked about here should arrive at some point on the stable channel for the desktop clients – including LaCrosse and Fuchsia.
Don’t expect official word to come for a while yet. You’ll definitely get more breadcrumbs on blogs including Android Police.
